| 5G is Feeling Under the Weather  Dear Daily Prophecy Reader,
I think 5G wireless — the vaunted next generation of high frequency mobile technology, touted for everything from self-driving cars to the internet of things (IoT) — just caught coronavirus. It's gasping for breath and petitioning for a ventilator. After a brief obligatory rant on the lock in, I'll explain. Sorry folks. If you thought the climate cranks and weather bores had achieved the ultimate in mind-bending stupidity, if you imagined it couldn't any get more imbecilic than beatifying gasbag Greta Thunberg as the Time magazine "Person of the Year," if you supposed the epitome of primitivism was shutting down the economy to go "back to windmills" then this medieval lock-in is even worse. Surely, Dr. Neil Ferguson of the Imperial College of London will be a suitable Thunberg successor as this year's Time"Person of the Year" for what statistician (and meteorologist) William Briggs accurately dubs as "the most colossal and costly blown forecast of all time." Ferguson's "World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Infectious Disease Modelling" last month predicted 40 million COVID deaths unless the politicians shut down the world economy. They are now preening as heroes for saving 38.5 million lives by their alert. But even their 1.5 million deaths can come true only through the sleight of hand of dubbing all deaths with COVID antigens as COVID deaths. Watch them. They're doing it now. Under the new regime of "let them eat banknotes," you close down the world economy and nearly everyone will die unless they can readily digest and metabolize the nutrients in the toilet paper currencies being served up by the maître d's at central banks. Make Way for WiFi6 and Beyond What with the atmosphere filling up with all this halitosis of politicians as they wheeze and spray phlegmy goops of green mucus from their viral new mania, it's been hard for me to breathe, let alone keep track of new technology developments. So, I entirely missed the giant sucking sound of the air being slurped from the sails of the "5G" new-generation hype machine. I missed the momentous launch last Thursday, April 23 of a real new era in wireless. Chairman Ajit Pai and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) unanimously voted to add 1.2 gigahertz of new spectrum to the unlicensed bands used by Wi-Fi. That announcement expanded by a factor of five the amount of spectrum available for unlicensed uses. Sold in FCC auctions, licensed spectrum is the focus of all the attention. It tends to go to the established telcos and to politically nimble smaller businesses. 5G is the latest generation of licensed services. Unlicensed spectrum is supposed to be reserved for Industrial, Scientific and Medical (ISM) uses such as connections in factories, laboratories, and hospitals that cannot hire a law firm on "K" street every time they want to try a new frequency. Although Wi-Fi does not exactly fit these categories, the FCC has been permissive and allowed it to become the dominant unlicensed application. Cisco predicts 628 million Wi-Fi hotspots globally by 2023, up from 169 million five years earlier. | 
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